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'''Antanaclasis''' is the [[rhetoric]]al device of repeating a given word, but assigning it multiple meanings.  As a play on homonyms, it is also a form of [[pun]], and is often used to comic or witty effect.

'''Antanaclasis''' is the [[rhetoric]]al device of repeating a given word, but assigning it multiple meanings.  As a play on homonyms, it is also a form of [[pun]], and is often used to comic or witty effect.

'''Examples of Antanaclasis'''

===Examples of Antanaclasis===

*"Put out the light, and then put out the light."  (''Othello'' 5.2.7) --[[William Shakespeare]]

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately."  --[[Benjamin Franklin]]

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"Put out the light, and then put out the light."  (''Othello'' 5.2.7) --[[William Shakespeare]]